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1874 Italian general election

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Field	Value
country	Kingdom of Italy
type	legislative
previous_election	1870 Italian general election
previous_year	1870
next_election	1876 Italian general election
next_year	1876
seats_for_election	All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies255 seats needed for a majority
election_date	8 November 1874 (first round)
15 November 1874 (second round)
image1	Marco Minghetti.jpg
leader1	Marco Minghetti
leaders_seat1	Legnago
party1	Historical Right
seats1	276
seat_change1	43
image2	Agostino Depretis.jpg
leader2	Agostino Depretis
leaders_seat2	Stradella
party2	Historical Left
seats2	232
seat_change2	37
map_image	1874 Italian general election map.svg
map_caption	Results by electoral college
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Elected Prime Minister
before_election	Marco Minghetti
after_election	Marco Minghetti
before_party	Historical Right
after_party	Historical Right

15 November 1874 (second round)

General elections were held in Italy on 8 November, with a second round of voting on 15 November. They were a snap election, called by Prime Minister Marco Minghetti to strengthen his majority.

Only 571,939 men of a total population of around 28 million were entitled to vote. Right-wing candidates emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament with around 48% of the seats in Parliament. They were largely aristocrats representing rentiers from the north of the country, and held moderate political views including loyalty to the crown and low government spending. This was the last election in which the Historical Right faction emerged as the largest.

Campaign

Prime Minister Marco Minghetti and his influent Minister of the Treasury Quintino Sella were involved into an ambitious program of budget which needed a strong majority, for which they tried to oblige the Independents to choose their side, beginning to build a two-party system as in the United Kingdom. However, in the Italian non-partisan political system, hugely affected by localism and corruption, their bet was equivalent to an all-in that afterwards they lost.

The election did not give to Minghetti the advantage he was hoping, especially for the high support to the opposition in Southern Italy. His government survived, but the bipolarisation of the Parliament he had imposed, strengthened the Historical Left so that it could take the leadership of the country. Two years later, MPs from Tuscany became dissatisfied with the government after it refused to intervene in the financial problems of Florence. The government was defeated on a vote on nationalising railways on 18 March 1876 and was forced to resign. As a result, Agostino Depretis, leader of the left-wing bloc, became Prime Minister, with 414 of the 508 MPs supporting the government. Early elections were held in November.

Parties and leaders

Party	Ideology	Leader
Historical Right}}"		Historical Right	Conservatism
Historical Left}}"		Historical Left	Liberalism

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1047 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p1049
Nohlen & Stöver, p1082
Nohlen & Stöver, p1028
[http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,perdata/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,1271_01_1874_0301_0001_18632449/anews,true/ La Stampa], Thursday, 5 November 1874
[http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,perdata/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,1271_01_1874_0301_0001_18632449/anews,true/ La Stampa], Sunday, 8 November 1874
[http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,perdata/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,1271_01_1874_0301_0001_18632449/anews,true/ La Stampa], Monday, 16 November 1974
Nohlen & Stöver, p1029

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